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Originally Posted by Brandon Martus
The spam was HUGE on firstwiki. The 'text' table crashed a couple weeks ago and the CD server wasn't big enough to repair the table (there's that much spam). I'm going to pull it off to a local machine, repair and re-upload, but that may take a while.
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Somehow that doesn't surprise me at all. Spam was being added at a rate of roughly 10-20 new pages per minute, so the crash was inevitable.
I wouldn't mind seeing the FIRSTwiki started up again, either from a restored version (even if it was just select, useful pages) or fresh, but something would have to be done to handle the spam...
Linking accounts to ChiefDelphi would be an ideal way to combat spam, from what I've seen (though Brandon may correct me on this), ChiefDelphi seems to have much fewer instances of incoming spam, plus the added step of having to register here first would virtually eliminate any bots trying to post on the wiki since bots typically aren't smart enough to register on one website in order to post on a different one.
I'm still up for helping moderate and contribute like before, if and when there is a wiki up and running again.
